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Win VIP cocktail making class at The Lowry

Win VIP cocktail making class at The Lowry

To celebrate the launch of the new summer cocktail menu at The Lowry Hotel, TOM are giving two lucky readers the chance to go with a friend to a VIP cocktail making workshop at the ...

13 July 2015

Grow your own food is big deal at Dig The City urban festival

Grow your own food is big deal at Dig The City urban festival

DIG The City returns at the end of July to carpet Manchester city centre streets with show gardens – with a huge emphasis on grow-your-own in its green agenda. The weeklong gardening festival offers dozens ...

11 July 2015

Solita to open a fourth restaurant – in the Barton Arcade

Solita to open a fourth restaurant – in the Barton Arcade

By Neil SowerbyLESS than a month after iconic shoe retailers Edwards of Manchester abruptly shut up shop on Deansgate after 185 years of trading comes news of a more contemporary icon moving in. Solita, doyens ...

9 July 2015

B.Eat Street and Guerrilla Eats – pop up pioneers move on

B.Eat Street and Guerrilla Eats – pop up pioneers move on

By Neil Sowerby TUMBLEWEED is about to blow down those mean food streets. We’ll all be shaving off our beards and using proper cutlery again come autumn. A little premature perhaps, but the countdown to ...

8 July 2015

Lowry Hotel's Graduation Menu Is First Class

Lowry Hotel's Graduation Menu Is First Class

PROUD parents ought to splash out on a special meal to celebrate their offspring’s graduation success – TOM would recommend the specially tailored ‘Graduation Menu’ at the Lowry Hotel. Served throughout July lunch and dinner, ...

7 July 2015

Shebeen, Sham Bodie and Black Jack – quite a weekend (July 24-26) in prospect

Shebeen, Sham Bodie and Black Jack – quite a weekend (July 24-26) in prospect

THE summer party season shows no sign of slowing down. Latest must-do events come from the enterprising folk at Shebeen UK, who on the weekend of July 24 take over Black Jack Brewery. It kicks ...

7 July 2015

Mowgli the latest to sign up for mega dining mall the Corn Exchange

Mowgli the latest to sign up for mega dining mall the Corn Exchange

ABOVE is a sneak preview of the stunning atrium stripped back to its original beauty inside the Corn Exchange that by the end of August should be hosting the advance guard of eateries scheduled for ...

7 July 2015

Get a pizza the action with American animator at Ply

Get a pizza the action with American animator at Ply

NEW York-based experimental animator Andrew Salomone is running a free workshop at the Northern Quarter’s Ply bar on Thursday, July 9 – an extension of his ‘Pizzoetrope’ project, which uses pizza dough, record decks and ...

7 July 2015

WIN VIP entry to the Hendricks Cocktail masterclass

WIN VIP entry to the Hendricks Cocktail masterclass

This summer, enjoy a very British Garden party with Hendrick’s and The Merlin in Alderley Edge (www.themerlin.co.uk) as the Hendrick’s Garden Party Bus arrives to show us Brits how garden parties really should be done. ...

3 July 2015

Head to KIN 2015 for a Feast of Ideas

Head to KIN 2015 for a Feast of Ideas

The upcoming KIN 2015 promises an incredible line up of cutting edge ideas, workshops and talks on current food culture. The Vegetarian Society’s KIN 2015 is being held in Manchester on Saturday July 11. It’s ...

3 July 2015

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